Example sentences of "prevent us [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to say ‘ well we may run into erm problems which we ca n't at the moment foresee , or problems which may make life temporarily a little difficult ’ I do n't think should prevent us from tackling the problem . |
| 2 | High winds now prevented us from visiting the Monach Isles , reputedly site of the world 's second largest seal colony . |
| 3 | Considerations of security prevented us from filming the machine which puts the layers into Vienetta … or the twirls into a tangle twister . |
| 4 | Only our deplorable ignorance of Carthaginian and Parthian jokes prevents us from assessing the local reactions to " pergraecari " , a word which Festus explains as " epulis et potationibus inservire " ( p. 235 L. ) . |
| 5 | By denying the existence of administrative law in the face of the structural pressures for the growth in administration , the influence which Dicey 's theory had on political and legal thought served to shield us from the realities and to prevent us from addressing the issues raised by these developments in a constructive fashion . |